Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Maker(s): 
Accession Number: 
55.4.42
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20 cm; Rim Diam: 8.9 cm; Foot Diam: 11.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1785-1795
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Clear heavy glass with dark greenish-grey tinge and many minute bubbles; free blown and tooled; high domed foot with rough pontil mark, bulgy inverted baluster stem with large tear, straight sided slightly conical bowl with tapering solid bottom containing six tears encircling a seventh tear.
Department: 
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Category: 
Independence Pursued: 17th and 18th c. American Glass: Amelung
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1976-05 through 1976-11
Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 1) (1999) pp. 189, 250; BIB# 61154
John Frederick Amelung and the New Bremen Glassmanufactory (1976) illustrated, pp. 86-87, fig. 40; BIB# AI6136
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 68, #3, pp. 256-257; BIB# 25299